. Review of reviews and world's work. he race. Longbefore the end of the attack \erdun hadlost its military \ alue; it had lost its moralvalue for the Germans, so far as the restof the world was concerned, long before theend came; but the fall of \erdun. althoughit proved to be without consequences, wouldhave been a tragedy for the whole Frenchpeople, so passionately had they willed thatit should hold. For myself, after I had been to \ erdunand seen the soldiers who were defending it,heard their confident assertion, They shallnot pass, I could not believe that therecould be any other end to th
. Review of reviews and world's work. he race. Longbefore the end of the attack \erdun hadlost its military \ alue; it had lost its moralvalue for the Germans, so far as the restof the world was concerned, long before theend came; but the fall of \erdun. althoughit proved to be without consequences, wouldhave been a tragedy for the whole Frenchpeople, so passionately had they willed thatit should hold. For myself, after I had been to \ erdunand seen the soldiers who were defending it,heard their confident assertion, They shallnot pass, I could not believe that therecould be any other end to the battle thanthat which has now come. And I am satis-fied that the same spirit will repulse anyproposition of peace that does not includethe redemption of Alsace-Lorraine. J BOTHA OF SOUTH AFRICA As the nineteenth centun* was drawing toits close, one Louis Botha, a sturdyand prosperous young farmer of the Trans-vaal, found himself at the head of a peacepart>, in opposition to President Kruger,who was urging war with Great KT, HON. IXXIIS BCrnU. PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNION AFRICA Wc think of the South African Boers asfxclu%ive\y Dutch, but many families amongrhrm arc of French Mu^iirnot strnk; suchwere the B<jrha%, who had come to the Cajx*about the time other Huguenot faiinlics hadcrf»si%r<\ the Atlantic to America. Kach gen-eration made itn trek, juM as in America . •UUJ ? 0,r Stau. I!• %i. •:»«xiK:iii uib7 (ur man/ the pioneers moved westward by stages, andin the eighties of the last century youngLouis Botha was opening up a new countryand laying social foundations precisely ashundreds of vigorous young Americans weredoing at the same period in the Dakotas,Washington, Montana, and had been for peace withEngland, but when old Krugerscounsels prevailed and his countrywas committed to war, in 18W, noone answered the call to arms morepromptly. Botha was thirty-sevenwhen the summons came. Thatwas in 1899. One year before, inAmerica,
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